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August 18, 2011
Young students in the ALICE control centre during European Researcher's night 2010
To mark European Researchers' Night, CERN is inviting young people into the Large Hadron Collider's control rooms on the evening of 23 September. Students aged between 13 and 18 will have the unique opportunity of spending two hours alongside physicists running the LHC and its detectors.
CERN is one of the world's largest research centres. More than 10,000 physicists from 100 different countries pool their efforts at CERN in a bid to extend our knowledge of matter and the Universe.
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To do this, they use a gigantic, 27-km machine installed 100 m below the ground, called the LHC, which collides particles at very high energies, close to the speed of light, thus recreating the conditions that existed just after the Big Bang. Using results recorded in the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and TOTEM detectors, physicists around the world analyse the particles produced in these collisions.
More information:
http://nuitdeschercheurs.web.cern.ch/
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